So does telling a story first make the original version true? And with the current species count on this planet well over 8 million it would have been a truly cramped ark indeed (and how do you keep the carnivores from eating the herbivores?). And as Mark Twain once observed, Noah and his family would have been extraordinarily sick as they would have had to harbor all the diseases as well in order for them to survive (I assume that also includes STDs!). My goodness, I hope they burned that filthy ark when they were done with it!